farmer's wife

Chapter 70

Fu Yan: "Oh my god, it's already this hour, we haven't eaten yet, Brother Alie, are you hungry?"

Xiao Lie nodded and smiled, "I'm hungry. I didn't bring food from the old house, so why don't we go out to eat."

"Success, let's go eat big meat buns! Can Ah Jian eat it?"

Xiao Jian seemed to smell it, jumped off the chair, and waited to go out quickly.

After eating a late dinner, the three of them came back to wash up and go to bed early.

Yesterday was solidly busy with a lot of things, and after a good night's sleep, the three of them woke up refreshed in their new home.

The family hadn't bought food yet, so they ate out as usual before driving the ox cart back to the village.

After returning the ox cart to the village chief's house, Fu Yan went back to pack the things at home.

Burnt houses had to be rebuilt and replaced.

Fu Yan tidied up the things one by one.Those who wanted to stay in the old house were locked in Xiao Jian's room which was well put, and the rest were kept and brought to the city together at night.

And Xiao Lie went to find those houses in the village that could build houses, and troubled them to rebuild the old houses.

Everyone readily agreed.

They helped build Xiao Lie's house three years ago, and they all know the structure.

After talking about things, when Xiao Lie returned home, he happened to run into Aunt Zhang who came over.

Xiao Lie: "Aunt Zhang, there is still some chaos at home, wait a minute, I will move a stool for you to sit in the yard."

Aunt Zhang waved her hand to signal him not to move: "I won't sit down anymore, I just came to call you to my house for lunch, pack up and come here quickly."

Fu Yan heard Aunt Zhang's voice, washed her hands and came out: "Why is Aunt Zhang here?"

Seeing the two of them like this, Aunt Zhang knew that they were busy with the family affairs, so they probably hadn't thought about lunch yet.

She scolded: "It's almost noon, you've been busy for a long time and you're not hungry? Your sister-in-laws have already prepared the meal, so hurry up and have a meal."

How can I trouble others every day, eating and living.

Fu Yan smiled embarrassedly: "How can I bother your family so much, we can just do something at home."

"Auntie, why are you being so polite? Your kitchen and pots are all on fire. You can't eat hot food. Come here quickly. Your uncle is also looking for you."

Hearing this, Fu Yan just remembered that she was so busy forgetting just now!The kitchen at home was destroyed, and the pot was burnt with holes.It really can't cook.

So the three of them went back to Sun's house with Aunt Zhang.

Cui Taoer, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Sun family, had already put all the food on the table and was waiting for them to come back.

After a while, Sun Changgeng also came in with a small burden.He put the burden on another small table first, and called everyone to sit down one by one.

Yesterday, the grandchildren's family also shared the meat, and Xiao Lie gave them some more.

The weather is getting hotter, and the meat cannot be kept for too long.Today, Cui Tao'er and Wang Shu used their housekeeping skills and generously prepared several meat dishes.

After the banquet, everyone ate happily and didn't have the mood to chat slowly.

After dinner, Sun Changgeng brought up the small burden again, and called Xiao Lie and Fu Yan into their back room to talk.

Sun Changgeng handed the small burden to Xiao Lie: "Count up."

Xiao Lie opened it, and found a bag of silver, large and small.

"This is 15 taels of silver as compensation from Xiao Dabao's family." Sun Changgeng sat the two of them down and said slowly, "I went to Xiao Dabao's house with the elders of the clan in the morning, and the land deeds of three mu of fertile land were directly taken back to the clan. inside."

"We weighed the silver on the spot, exactly 15 taels, not a lot at all. You can also weigh it at home."

Xiao Lie wrapped up the money again, and said to Sun Changgeng: "Don't worry, please trouble Uncle Sun, you have to worry about us again."

Sun Changgeng: "It's better if it's early, it's nothing."

"Xiao Dabao's family didn't want to give ten taels of silver as a betrothal gift, so why can they just offer 15 taels now?" Fu Yan was a little curious.

Hearing Fu Yan's question, Xiao Lie also looked at Sun Changgeng curiously.One must know that Xiao Qiang even came to borrow money on purpose.

Speaking of this, he became angry, as if thinking of the nonsense just now, Sun Changgeng frowned and told them:
"You don't know, Cui Xinghua refused at first, she kept crying and howling that she had no money, and asked us to give it a few years to slowly save and pay back."

"Can I trust her words? After a few years, she will be able to let you down!" Seeing that the village chief was annoyed, Fu Yan silently poured him a glass of water to moisten his throat.

"Thank you Yan." Sun Changgeng took a sip and continued: "Some clan elders said that if you don't pay the money, you can use fertile land to pay for it. Xiao Qiang didn't want to go back and search their house for money. Cui Xinghua immediately chased after him. We were surprised to block it in the past, but we didn't expect Xiao Qiang to find more than twenty taels!"

While talking, Sun Changgeng also laughed, "Xiao Qiang and Xiao Dabao's faces turned dark on the spot. I didn't expect that Cui Xinghua hid the family's money privately, and insisted that the family had no money and asked outsiders to borrow it. It's a good marriage. It's what it is now."

He sighed again, Xiao Qiang has no courage, he is also responsible for the mess at home and outside.

Hearing that Cui Xinghua's family still had more than [-] taels of silver, Fu Yan and Xiao Lie were speechless for a moment.

In addition to the matter of compensation, Sun Changgeng also revealed: "This incident in their family has gone too far, and the elders of the Cui family were pissed off by Cui Xinghua's incident in the morning. Open the ancestral hall. Alas..."

Fu Yan quietly raised her head and glanced at Xiao Lie, Brother Alie had also anticipated the extermination of the family.

Xiao Lie didn't change his face, as if he didn't care about this matter.

But that's true, it doesn't matter if Cui Xinghua's family can't jump in front of them anymore.

Xiao Lie thanked the village head again for his help, and left Sun's house together with Fu Yan and Xiao Jian.

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The renovation of the house in the village has already invited people, and Xiao Lie will check the progress when he returns to the village to hunt later.

Taking the last things back to the shop, Fu Yan went non-stop to buy rice noodles and other food seasonings to fill up the kitchen one by one.

Still home cooking is comfortable and delicious.

The shop had planned to open in June, and the people who built the houses in the village had to renovate the old houses, so they couldn't spare manpower.

Xiao Lie then planned to hire a craftsman in the city who could decorate shops.

Fu Yan stopped him and said, "Brother Alie, it's not urgent. Although I don't understand these things about rebuilding the shop, I have some ideas about the layout of the shop. I'll draw a simple layout design first, and you can find something that can be done later." Come on, people."

Fu Yan had an idea, Xiao Lie naturally agreed.

Xiao Lie: "Then you paint first, I'll build our oven first." The oven needs to be air-dried for a few days after it is re-covered, and now that he is free, he will do it first.

Fu Yan has no objection.

The oven is not beautiful, and it has to be burned to exhaust gas, so it cannot be placed in the front shop.The two went around and decided to build it in the small open space connecting the kitchen and the front shop just like in the old house.

(End of this chapter)